Quest of Stone

QUEST OF STONE THE TRANSFUSION SAGA # 14 STEPHANIE HUDSON HUDSON INDIE INK Quest of Stone The Transfusion Saga #14 Copyright © 2023 Stephanie Hudson Published by Hudson Indie Ink www.hudsonindieink.com This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this ebook and did not purchase it, or it wasn’t purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite book retailer and purchase your own copy. No part of this ebook may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademark status and trademark owners of various products referred to in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorised, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners. Quests of Stone/Stephanie Hudson – 1st ed. I would like to dedicate this last book to all my fans who have followed me through this journey and trusted me to tell this story the way it was always meant to be told. As always, my heart aches at the end as I hate saying goodbye to characters I have spent years writing about. Which is most likely why we will see lots more of Lucius and Amelia in the future, making cameo appearances in other books. As always, It has been an honour writing every word for so many amazing kind souls and I wanted you to know that I appreciate every single one of you. You bring me comfort and strength on the days I find it hard to find the right words, knowing you deserve nothing less than my very best. You drive me forward and keep me going just by knowing you are there at the ready for the story, waiting with bated breath for these characters to show themselves. That means the world to me. So please know that you have my heart on each and every page. Thank you for supporting every word. All my love Eternally, yours, Stephanie. x I would also like to thank all those at Muncaster Castle, for the beauty I found there inspired a writer's love of history and became the most perfect backdrop for this story to be told. If you ever get the chance to visit this wonderful place then you will not be disappointed by the beauty and historical adventure you find there. I would also like to personally thank Claire Boyle for taking this journey with me, for she has played an integral part in discovering this story and helped me every step of the way with her honest guidance. ‘A true friend is not the friend who always tells you what you want to hear but always tells you what you need to hear.’ Thank you always, My dear friend. CONTENTS Prologue 1. Lia Earhart Strikes Again 2. Rules of Time Travel 3. Destroying Shadows 4. Temptation 5. In All His Morning Glory 6. A Fooling Tom 7. The Fighter In Me 8. Measure of a Great Man 9. Undercurrent of Truth 10. Surmounting Glory 11. Wanting PIe 12. Bargains and Battles 13. Escape is Key 14. Foolish Bloody Mistakes 15. The Perfect Portrait of a Plan 16. A Taste of Impatience 17. Origins of a Name 18. Lady in Red 19. For the Love of Cheese 20. The Heart of War 21. Escape Plan 22. Escaping Fate 23. Horse Race 24. Disappearing Act 25. The Hunt Continues 26. Runaway Heart 27. Footprints in the Sand 28. Family Affair 29. Tales to be Told 30. Knock on Wood 31. Tall Orders 32. Light in the Eternal Darkness 33. Love is Sacrifice 34. Quest of Stone 35. Ending with Perfection Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Also by stephanie hudson Other Hudson Indie Ink Authors PROLOGUE AMELIA Thunder in my heart. That was what this felt like. Yet even as I thought it, I still knew deep down that it was so much more than that. It felt as if I was running along wet sand and trying to catch up with the footsteps ahead of me. Trying to catch up with them before they sank away to the memories that no longer had the power to hold them to this world. As if someone had already made this journey once before and I was merely the unseen shadow that lagged behind. Because 1 LIA EARHART STRIKES AGAIN The very last sight I ever thought I would cruelly be forced to witness was what faced me now. What was his past now became my painful present, as across the room there he was. There was my Chosen One. There was my Vampire King. And he was kissing someone else. The moment I saw this, two things happened simultaneously, the first was that it felt like my heart had just been shattered into a million pieces. And the second was when I turned quickly, only to bang my tray into a